Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-13
Ceueral State News.


 Miss Psrloa will give series of cooking lessons and lectures in Hartford during January and Feb ruary.
 MERIDEN's NEW RAILROAD.
 Meriden's new railroad to Crom well has cost more than was anticipated and it is rumored that it will be beaded to the tune of S4oO,OO0.
 DEATH or A HARTFORD LADY.
 HARTFORD, Dec 12.-Miss Esther Pratt of this city whose illness from paralysis reported Sat urday, died at 5 o'clock this morning. She was Sixty-eight years old and has been generous con- tributor to local charities for many years.
 A HOARD OF HALF DOLLARS.
 The Torrington Register says: A farmer GUS toner 9ne day this week pad s us 5og 55lgPF so many of that time together ne a f0 s they g left to him, all of old dates"
 .ATHoRouGH MUSICAL EDUCATION"
 A royal road to learning seems to have been found in Essex since the local correspondent of the Ts mGsica 6 education tic this winter See Mrs A. Smiths advertisement in another column
 CENTURY HALF.
 St Paul's parish at Norwalk will celebrate it's one hundred and f1ttieth anniversary on Saturday, and many clergymen will be present and formal exercises will occur in honor of the ann1versary This is the oldest Episcopal parish in the State and one of the oldest in the country DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE. Martha Potter disappointed in love, called for a deadly poison at Bridgeport drug store day or cIep however s1spectng her purpose, had given her harmless mixture, and she she is now suffering from nervous prostration. The shrewd druggist has been thanked by the young woman and hel father
 THE WRECKED HELEN AUGUSTA. The schooner Helen Augusta, which was wrecked in the Sound Friday, was laden with two hun dred and fifty tons of coal for Davis Brothers ot Ma Hs0ed at about and Was not insured was built in 1865 by Gildersleeve & Sons, and has been commanded for fifteen years by Captain Ed win A. Pratt.
 ~rrrowsr5Ip MEETING A fellowship meeting of all the Congregations churches in the Meriden district will be held at the December IA lasting from ii a. m. to p. with recess for lunch. Two discussions will be hed one by the Rev MT Stevens of Southngton and the Rev. AIr. Hungerford of New Britain respectively Do1NGs AT TRINITY COLLEGE. The stage in Alumni hall at Trinity used for the first time Friday evening" when the Dramatic association gave two farces: Who's Who?n and club also gave selections. There was large and enthusiastic audience and everything passed oil flowers With '9i'' in dark flowers on Background of white ones from the freshman class Exam attendance at the gymnasium has been e1 since it opened.
 MIR. PONDS NEW PLAY. The New York World tells the following of a former Hartforder: MT Ausou Pond, who wrote the successful play called Her Atonement,' is at
 work & rR beF rond M Poed between his plays chips into Wall street now and nPo "fa He 1a made s5eoo out Of Her ton and views life with serene content His forthcom- m Pond himself is not emotional at all" SAD CASE. On Saturday last Mir. Amos A. Dewitt, for more school, iNorwich Town was taken. to the Middle town hospital for treatment He broke down on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and his condi- ton has been such since that time that his medical attendant and friends deemed it wise to give him the case pitiable one Is that he has but single known relative niece, probably living in Maine, while employed as superintendent in one Of the large cotton mills belonging to the Sprague estate MT. Dewitt was graduated at Brown university and taught several years in Windham county before coming to Norwich.-Norwich Bulletin.
 SUDDEN | DEATH OF MR wII1IAM VII a1sap; P BENJAMIN New London, died at his home Sunday morning at 515 o'clock. MT. Benjamin was in the seventy first has been in the dry goods business. The deceased was man of untiring energy M and quick to perceive ues gave him great advantage in buying. His oE m ehe a o GT tne also so public affairs in New London and during his entire ed e o was in m the State eesars a representative, the Republican party nomi- ee of t6e 69 State Reform school and held that pos ton for twenty years. In the New London common Te paF i 1 and ef Fifty years ago he was ordained 8 deacon in the that church. He ard the late Elder Swan in 1s49 organized the Third Baptist society in New Lon don. The organization prospered and did a grand work in it's field MT, Benjamin He died suddenly. He had been unwell for three months and had given up the hardest part of his business duties. Saturday he was feeling unusual ly well and drove out as his custom, long distance into the country. He had callers after noon and evening, his pastor, the Rev pr Nordell, being among the last to see him. He slept soundly all night, but at 5 a m. Sunday awoke complaining of great pressure about the heart. Mrs. Benjamin administered some simple remedy to relieve him. when he dropped upon the pillow, breathed labori- ously few times and expired.